Weathered Oak

These pieces are from a giant old oak tree that blew down last summer. The first piece took a long time to get it stabilized, it has two full bottles of two part epoxy, and two bottles of CA glue stiffening it up. I used a holy galahad grinder to hollow it out, and filled the voids with turquoise. There is over a quart of lacquer soaked into this piece and then sanded off and waxed. 21 inches across at its longest point, and 15 inches wide.

The next piece is from the same tree, and it is some kind of flattened out burl. It was covered moss, bark, and bugs when I started to look inside, but what I found was pretty cool. Decided just to clean this on up for use as a center piece. it is roughly 15 inches across.

And my 10 year old daughter would like everyone to know that she helped to take the pictures.